Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-08T03:29:48Z

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 06:29, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Dec 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> > On 12/6/05, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > QA has to happen at all levels if it is supposed to be affordable or
> > > scalable. The development process was scaled up, but QA wasn't.
> > >
> > > How about the Signed-off-by: lines? Those people who pass on the changes
> > > also pass on the bugs, and they are responsible for the code - not only
> > > license-wise, but also quality-wise. That's the latest point where
> > > regression tests MUST happen.
> >
> > People who pass the changes can only test ones they have hardware for.
> > For the rest they can try to validate the code by reading patches but
> > have to rely on the submitter wrt to the patch actually working.
>
> What I'm saying is that people (maintainer) should have a selected
> number of people (users) test the patches before they are merged.
>

And we try. Take for example psmouse_resync patch that is now in -mm.
I got about 30 reports that it worked and fixed people's problems before
I got it to Andrew. And still as soon as it got to -mm I got a complaint
that it failed on one of boxes ;(

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Dmitry